Eden Bloom - Twenty Twenty Three - 07 Blight is Beauty

Eden Bloom - Blight is Beauty
I wish that I could adequately articulate it
The threads are light and silvery and hard to see.
They are also soaked in suffering and horror
it’s hard to look and remain in right mind, admittedly.
I admit it.
When the world is unsafe,
perspectives are shifted to a point
way off over there afar.
When threatened
some learn how to become hidden.
There are ghosts,
there are people in between
there are people you don’t see
I do not proclaim to walk in that world,
but I have taken and been given shelter
by its compassion and it’s twisted protection.
For some poverty is protection,
blight is beauty and weeds are medicine.
There is a whole N’other system.
For those who grew up broken
They protect themselves by being forgotten
Cutting the wires, alone, abandoned
Like a Billboard on a deserted highway
Like a tag sprayed on a forgotten cut
Like a message on the radio at 5 am
Like bad music made by cheap AI
Like a meme coming out a shadow banned account
For some poverty is protection,
blight is beauty and weeds are medicine.
There is a whole N’other system.
For those who grew up broken
They protect themselves by being forgotten
Cutting the wires, alone, abandoned
© Eden Bloom, December 26, 2023
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Dedicated to the 23rd Current - For Michael 23 and Kali, Coyote, Eden and nodes on the network no longer "here" and for those of us left behind. Released, Leap Day February 29, 2024 on Bandcamp: edenbloom.bandcamp.com/album/twenty-twenty-three
Written, performed and recorded by Eden Bloom
The foundation of this release is a sunrise ritual performed and recorded on July 7, 2023 in the Babad Do'ag/Catalina Mountains, Arizona and ritual performed and recorded on December 23, 2023. The songs were "received" as impromptu experiments written and recorded in single days in December of 2023 in our temple studio in Detroit.
1. T.O.P.Y. Blues - December 6th 2023
2. Walk the Waves - December 13th 2023
3. 12.23.2023 (1) - December 23rd 2023
4. Soon Enough - December 9th 2023
5. 12.23.2023 (2) - December 23rd 2023
6. Never the Same - December 25th 2023
7. Blight is Beauty - December 26th 2023
8. Walk the Sky - December 13th 2023
9. 2023 - December 30th 2023
Project produced and mixed by Eden Bloom January 3, 2024
This version cleaned up by DJ Vulchre January 4, 2024
All songs © Eden Bloom 2024